Your 2 Cents’ Worth for Monday, November 6, 2017

Am I the only one bothered by food court workers using the same dried up cloth to wipe table after table using no cleaner of any kind? I saw a kid spit out her lunch on the table, mom is on her phone; later, worker comes by, slides the cloth across the table, pushes the crumbs on the floor. Yuck!

— No wonder everyone is sick

To “Typical,” I’m a rural Iowan and I follow local county decisions. There’s a big difference between someone wanting a zoning variance to build a new fence and a rich hog lot operator who builds a new hog lot close to the old house of a low-income elderly couple who can’t easily sell and move.

— Most Iowans understand that

There are advantages and disadvantages to living downtown. Take the good with the bad and quit whining. Get up earlier if you want to get to work on time. Adjust your own schedule instead of asking a business to adjust theirs.

— Tired of whining millennials

Granted, we need to do more to control opioids, but I can’t help feel that this new war is another distraction. About 100 people a day in the U.S. die from opioid overdoes — about the same as in auto accidents, about the same as die from guns. Why is one a crisis, and the others aren’t?

— Salem, Iowa

Tired of snobs moving to downtown who really don’t want to live downtown. Did they notice the tracks and consider trains might use them? Their buyer’s remorse is their problem.

— Hey look at me, I’m a train

Over the past few years, politicians have created a new oxymoron, that being the word, transparency. Also, the word bipartisanship has no longer a place in conversation.

— Tell me it wasn’t better years ago on Hwy. 30

I’m not much interested in JFK files from 55 years ago, but I do want to see President Trump’s tax returns so we can see how much conflict of interest there is in the new so-called Republican tax reform law.

— Inquiring Iowa wants to know

Every time I hear or read about a child dying as a direct result of neglect by their “parents,” I can only hope that justice does prevail and the “parents” get the maximum possible sentence, irregardless of mental illness issues, PTSD, prior record, etc.

— And justice for all!

A driver running a red light or stop sign and killing someone should be prosecuted as any other murder. Mechanical failure should be second degree murder. Cellphone, drunk, drugs or blatantly running the light or stop sign — first degree murder. Commit the offense and you have planned to kill someone someday.

— dce50028

As much as I’m in love with Des Moines, I don’t know why we collectively stand for the entire east side smelling like dead rotting animals at least once a week. Aren’t we better than this?